Two Freedoms, One Not So Useful

In The Realm of Religious Freedom , today’s “On the Square” article, editor Joseph Bottum examines the very worrisome implications of “the administrations favored formula for speaking about religious liberty.” He notes that the president speaks of the relatively weak “freedom of worship” rather than “freedom of religion,” which has beenand for very good reasons, which he givesthe standard way of speaking of the matter.